I'm writing a pythonic web API wrapper with a class like this

import httplib2
import urllib

class apiWrapper:

    def __init__(self):
    	self.http = httplib2.Http()

    def _http(self, url, method, dict):
    	'''
    	Im using this wrapper arround the http object
    	all the time inside the class
    	'''
    	params = urllib.urlencode(dict)
    	response, content = self.http.request(url,params,method)

as you can see I'm using the _http() method to simplify the interaction with the httplib2.Http() object. This method is called quite often inside the class and I'm wondering what's the best way to interact with this object:

• create the object in the __init__ and then reuse it when the _http() method is called (as shown in the code above)
• or create the httplib2.Http() object inside the method for every call of the _http() method (as shown in the code sample below)

import httplib2
import urllib


class apiWrapper:

    def __init__(self):

    def _http(self, url, method, dict):
    	'''Im using this wrapper arround the http object
    	all the time inside the class'''
    	http = httplib2.Http()
    	params = urllib.urlencode(dict)
    	response, content = http.request(url,params,method)